Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location	Gwangju, South Korea
Dates	25 July (heats and semifinals); 26 July (final)
Competitors	42 from 36 nations
Winning time	1:53.40
Medalists

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2019.[1][2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Competition record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009

The heats were held on 25 July at 10:28.[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:56.61	Q
2	5	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:56.76	Q
3	4	3	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:56.83	Q
4	3	3	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:56.99	Q
5	3	5	Xu Jiayu	China	1:57.15	Q, WD
6	3	2	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:57.20	Q
7	5	5	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:57.60	Q
8	4	2	Christian Diener	Germany	1:57.61	Q
8	5	8	Jakub Skierka	Poland	1:57.61	Q
10	5	6	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:57.67	Q
11	3	8	Daniel Cristian Martin	Romania	1:57.76	Q
12	3	1	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	1:57.80	Q
13	5	7	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	1:57.99	Q
14	5	2	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:58.04	Q
14	5	9	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:58.04	Q, NR
16	5	3	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:58.07	Q
17	5	1	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	1:58.16	Q
18	4	6	Bradley Woodward	Australia	1:58.31
19	4	5	Keita Sunama	Japan	1:58.40
20	3	7	Christopher Reid	South Africa	1:58.44
21	3	6	Li Guangyuan	China	1:58.57
22	4	1	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:58.74
23	3	0	Anton Loncar	Croatia	1:59.07
24	4	7	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:59.42
25	5	0	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:59.79
26	4	8	Cole Pratt	Canada	2:00.45
27	2	4	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	2:00.52
28	2	1	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	2:01.13
29	2	2	Ivan Stsegolov	Estonia	2:01.19	NR
30	3	9	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:01.44
31	4	0	Hugo González	Spain	2:01.84
32	2	8	Srihari Nataraj	India	2:02.08	NR
33	4	9	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	2:02.37
34	2	5	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	2:03.33
35	2	3	Chuang Mu-lun	Chinese Taipei	2:03.73
36	2	7	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	2:04.76
37	2	6	Armando Barrera	Cuba	2:05.23
38	2	0	Erick Gordillo	Guatemala	2:05.53
39	1	4	Ng Cheuk Yin	Hong Kong	2:06.64
40	1	5	Matthew Mays	Virgin Islands	2:07.03
41	2	9	Patrick Groters	Aruba	2:10.25
42	1	3	Ali Imaan	Maldives	2:33.23
	3	4	Mitch Larkin	Australia	DNS

The semifinals were held on 25 July at 21:35.[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:55.48	Q
2	8	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	1:56.96	Q, NR
3	5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:57.24	Q
4	3	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:57.26	Q
5	2	Daniel Cristian Martin	Romania	1:57.66
6	7	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	1:57.72
7	1	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:57.93	NR
	6	Jakub Skierka	Poland	DSQ

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:56.25	Q
2	5	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:56.60	Q
3	8	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:56.65	Q
4	3	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:57.07	Q
5	6	Christian Diener	Germany	1:57.33
6	7	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	1:57.68
7	2	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:58.12
8	1	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:58.29

The final was held on 26 July at 21:00.[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.40
	5	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:54.12
	3	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:55.85
4	1	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:56.37
5	8	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:56.52
6	6	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:56.72
7	7	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:56.86
8	2	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	1:58.50

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